Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Keeping Up with Catalonia and Democratic Party Debates

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🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Writer and author Andy Durgan discusses the fast-moving events taking place in Catalonia. This past week, Catalonia declared independence, and the Spanish government is moving quickly to repress the independence movement's political leaders and keep the region within its fold. Then, journalist Michael Sainato joins Suzi to talk about the post-2016 election fights within the Democratic Party, and what they mean for the next wave of election cycles.

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0:00.0	I'm Susie Wiseman and this is Jacobin Radio.
0:02.0	Andy Dorgan joins us fresh from the streets of Barcelona
0:14.9	to explain the crisis rocking Spain and Catalonia. Within days of the
0:19.2	historic vote for Catalan independence the Spanish central government declared the vote
0:24.0	illegal and has responded with fury, jailing the Catalan political leaders
0:28.8	seriously attacking democracy. What is behind Rahoy's blunt force reaction
0:34.3	and who are the forces supporting independence?
0:37.0	How has the left responded?
0:38.8	Is this a case of resurgent nationalism
0:41.5	or a popular reaction to the authoritarian repressive and
0:44.8	austerity policies of the Rehoy government. We'll get Andy Dorgan's take and is up
0:49.7	to the minute report. We also talk on Jacobin radio today to freelance journalist Michael
0:56.4	Sinato whose blow-by-blow account of the internal crises of the Democratic
1:01.2	Party has become essential reading.
1:03.0	We ask Michael to lay out the steps the Democrats have taken since the election to crush and
1:08.6	marginalize Bernie Sanders within the party and we get his take on the likely effects on the party's
1:14.2	political hopes for 2018 and 2020 as well as on the future of the Sanders
1:20.3	movement itself. All this on Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Weisman Radio. I'm Susie Weisman.
1:39.0	I'm very pleased to have Andy Dorgan with us. He's an historian who lives in Barcelona and lectures in the School of Modern
1:45.4	Languages at the University there. He has a book in English called The Spanish Civil War.
1:50.3	It was published in 2007 by Palgrave and he was an historical advisor for Ken Loach's film,
1:56.4	Land and Freedom.
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